Profile

Amitabh Chandra is an economist, a Professor of Public
Policy and Director of Health Policy Research at the Harvard
Kennedy School of Government, where he also Director of PhD
Admissions and Area Chair for Social and Urban Policy. He is a
member of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) Panel of Health
Advisors, and is a Research Associate at the IZA Institute in Bonn,
Germany and at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His
research focuses on productivity and cost-growth in healthcare,
medical malpractice, and racial disparities in healthcare. His
research has been supported by the National Institute of Aging, the
National Institute of Child Health and Development, the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation, and has been published in the American Economic
Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the New England Journal
of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and
Health Affairs. He is an editor of the Review of Economics and
Statistics, a former editor of the Journal of Human Resources, and
serves on the editorial boards of Economics Letters and the
American Economic Journal.

Chandra has testified to the United States Senate and the United
States Commission on Civil Rights. His research has been featured
in the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, Newsweek, and on
National Public Radio. He has been a consultant to the RAND
Corporation, Microsoft Research, the Institute of Medicine and the
Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts. In 2011 he
served as Massachusetts' Special Commissioner on Provider Price
Reform.

Professor Chandra is an elected member of the Institute of
Medicine, the first-prize recipient of the Upjohn Institute's
Dissertation Award, the Kenneth Arrow Award for best paper in
health economics, and the Eugene Garfield Award for the impact of
medical research. In 2012, he was awarded American Society of
Health Economists (ASHE) medal. The ASHE Medal is awarded
biennially to the economist age 40 or under who has made the most
significant contributions to the field of health economics.

Research

Selected Publication Citations:

Academic Journal/Scholarly Articles

Chandra, Amitabh, Maurice A. Dalton, and Jonathan Holmes. "Large
Increases In Spending On Postacute Care In Medicare Point To The
Potential For Cost Savings In These Settings." Health
Affairs (May 2013).

Seabury, Seth A., Anupam B. Jena, and Amitabh Chandra. "Trends in
the Earnings of Health Care Professionals in the United States,
1987-2010." Journal of the American Medical Association
308.20 (2012): 2083-2085.

Chandra, Amitabh, and Heidi Williams. Comment: Aging and Death
under a Dollar a Day. Research Findings in the Economics of
Aging. Ed. David A. Wise. University of Chicago Press, 2010,
203-209.

Chandra, Amitabh, and Heidi Williams. Comment: Income, Aging,
Health and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup
World Poll. Research Findings in the Economics of Aging. Ed.
David A. Wise. University of Chicago Press, 2010, 263-267.

Chandra, Amitabh. "Comment: Health and Well-Being in Udaipur and
South Africa." Developments in the Economics of Aging. Ed.
David A. Wise. National Bureau of Economic Research Conference
Report Series, University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Commentary

Chandra, Amitabh. "Defensive Medicine May Be Costlier Than It
Seems." Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2013.

Mello, Michelle, and Amitabh Chandra. "The Cap Doesn’t Fit." New
York Times, July 11, 2009.

Public Testimony

Chandra, Amitabh. Testimony to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission,
June 12, 2009.

Chandra, Amitabh. Testimony to the United States Senate Finance
Committee, Hearing on Health Care Reform, November 19, 2008.

Fisher, Elliott S., David C. Goodman, and Amitabh Chandra.
"Disparities in Health and Health Care among Medicare
Beneficiaries: A Brief Report of the Dartmouth Atlas Project."
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, June 2008.

Chandra, Amitabh, Jonathan Gruber, and Robin McKnight. "Patient
Cost-Sharing, Hospitalization Offsets, and the Design of Optimal
Health Insurance for the Elderly." NBER Working Paper Series
w12972, March 2007.